Archive for the ‘AIDS’ Category

Pulmonary and disseminated MAI infections are common in patients with AIDS. Recent reports have described documented MAI infection in 10 to 20 percent of the patients with AIDS during life and a prevalence of MAI infection at autopsy of 50 percent. Infection with MAI is usually a disseminated disease in AIDS, with a high incidence […]

A recent PPD skin test was nonreactive. A Ziehl-Neelsen stain of expectorated sputum revealed acid-fast bacilli. Subsequently, cultures of BAL fluid from the previous bronchoscopy one month earlier grew MAI. On the fifth day of hospitalization, the patient developed massive hemoptysis (approximately 300 ml of fresh blood over 12 hours). Coagulation studies and a platelet […]

The clinical manifestations of AIDS are many and diverse. The reported spectrum of pulmonary diseases has included opportunistic infections, Kaposi’s sarcoma, nonspecific lymphoid interstitial pneumonitis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, and even bronchospastic airways disease. Among the opportunistic infections, mycobacterial disease has emerged as an increasingly common manifestation of AIDS. Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients […]